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Global Chess League (GCL), a joint venture between Tech Mahindra and FIDE, today announced the complete list of players for the upcoming inaugural edition. The first season of the Global Chess League will be held at the Dubai Chess &…

Global Chess League (GCL), a joint venture between Tech Mahindra and FIDE, on Tuesday announced the complete list of players for the upcoming inaugural edition. The first season of the Global Chess League will be…

n an October evening in 2021, the who’s who of China’s chess world gathered at Beijing’s elite Peking University. The occasion was to celebrate the 30th year anniversary of the victory of Chinese chess legend Xie Jun, the first Asian woman…

Satheesh Vellinezhi | Photo Credit: Satheesh Vellinezhi You know what is the biggest problem with us Indians? Okay, okay, don’t answer that, this is a short column, no point starting something we can’t finish, (which is the slogan the…

Ding Liren. | Photo Credit: AP Tell me, Grandmaster, how can a Western European Grandmaster lose to a Chinaman?Dutch Grandmaster and author Jan Hein Donner thus asked Gudmundur Sigurjonsson, an Icelandic player, during the Chess Olympiad…

India’s long wait for a world champion may not be very far as chess wizard Viswanathan Anand hopes that “some Indians" will qualify for the Candidates Tournament next year.Seven slots are available for the Candidates in Toronto that will…

The pair played a speed-chess tiebreaker on Sunday to break a deadlock in their competition to replace Magnus Carlsen, who announced last year that he wouldn’t defend the crown he had won on five successive occasions. Ding, 30,…

China's Ding Liren made history by becoming the 17th FIDE World Champion in chess, defeating Ian Nepomniachtchi in the final game of the tiebreak here on Sunday. Both Ding and Nepomniachtchi finished 7-7 after…

China’s Ding Liren smiles while speaking after his victory in the FIDE World Chess Championship in Astana, Kazakhstan, Sunday, April 30, 2023. China’s Ding Liren beat Russia’s Ian Nepomniachtchi in a thrilling finale. He takes over the…

Chess is considered the ultimate game of cold, logical calculation, but it is also a game of passion and, at the highest level, of nerves. That was clear on Sunday when the world championship match in Astana, Kazakhstan, ended with Ding…